Neo wrote:
>>You have to show that in the tuple ("brown", "brown", "brown") the
>>string "brown" each time represents the same fact.
>
> A clearification. While the 1st, 2nd and 3rd "brown" in the above
> tuple do represent different things (ie fact), the name of each of
> those things is the same (ie string "brown") and it is the name of
> those things that can be normalized.
Why would you do that? What update anomaly would that solve? Recall that
this is what normalization is about, and not for example finding a more
compact representation.
Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 17:24:20 CDT
